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The odd chemistry of an interstellar comet and a sky getting harder to scan

What happens as the rarest visitors of the Solar System come faster than the sky can be observed? The only third object in interstellar known to have passed through the environs of the Sun was Comet ...
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NASA maps interstellar glaciers, vast icy dust clouds between stars

Somewhere between 4,000 and 5,000 light-years from Earth, inside some of the densest clouds of gas and dust in the Milky Way, ...
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World’s Biggest Camera May Find 50 Interstellar Objects, Scientists Say

The new Vera C. Rubin Observatory has already detected interstellar object 3I/ATLAS and may detect up to 50 more during its 10-year mission, according to a new model. The observatory in Chile, which ...
AOL

9 night sky events to see in December, from a supermoon to a once-in-a-lifetime interstellar comet

December’s “cold moon”—seen here rising above Whitby Abbey in Yorkshire—glows larger and brighter as a supermoon, when its full phase aligns with its closest pass to Earth. Danny Lawson, Press ...

'Interstellar glaciers': NASA's SPHEREx maps vast galactic ice regions

NASA's SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) mission has ...